Hello all, I am finaly back home and to a somewhat normal schedule after two and one half weeks.  Getting on my official home scale I was not expecting much but cautiously opptomistic considering I hae been somewhat off the NS food and not on my normal excersise schedule being on vacation and then back to work (out of town of co***).  Evan though I did not have the NS food available as much as usual I tried to keep my portions down and be as active as possible.  At one of my favorite Italian resteraunts I ordered and entree that lasted me for three meals. I guess thats why we gain weigh in the first place. Well I am please to report that I am officially at 221.8 and very please with my results. It doesn't look like I am going to make my goal by my 55th birthday on December 19th but evan at that I am not going to stress about it and looking forward to get tingthere around the first of the year and on to thinking about a maintenance program.

Thanks for all of your continued support.

Mike

   

Oh well I find myself unexpectedly out of town and away from my NS food until Tuesday night. Three choices , starve, just eat the extras or try substitutions. I have noticed that there is a lot in the supermarkets that has the same content like soups etc. I guess I am starting to experement with maintenance a little early. We will just have to see how it goes. Good news is that I am back at work and off vacation so I can finally get back to my Cardio. Have a Great Week everyone.. Mike

75 lbs are gone since I started this journey in August and I have been religious over following the plan to the letter. It works, no doubt. Last night I went out for the first time to a real restaurant to attempt to eat real food.. In retrospect I know that I went overboard but after confessing up and actually filling out the mealplanner for yesterday I really know that I failed miserably. I may have been a little obsessive in the past following the plan but when I go off it I really go off.. I was doing well obviously until dinner. So here goes. It started out with a couple of Dewars and waters (not too bad about 60 cals each and at least I get my water) then the bread (sourdough only one piece , I can evan live with that evan) but what is with that oz of butter (could of done without that) then came the Prime Rib with green beans and Rice Pilof. Now it was a great Prime Rib cooked perfectly and probably raised on a Botique Cattle farm feed the best grain here in Fla., certainly worth the indulgance but faced with the choice of 8/12/or 16 oz sizes I was not going to wuz out with only an 8 oz size (they call that Petite) The 16y oz certainly would not do for a person as obsessively committed to loosing weight as me so I chose the 12 oz size and figured I would leave half and bring it home. (FAT Chance) The meal capped off with a couple of more Scotches baon the back porch back home and of course some kind of NS desert. I believe that there are some crumbs of Zesty Herb mix next to me on the porch this morning. In retrospect I am going to reflect on the experience last night on what not to do and continue the battle to make my goal in the next couple of months. Thinking ahead to maintenance although may be th biggest part of my weight loss program. As you all can tell I am already thinking about it. Keep up with the Battle and have a great week everyone.

We all have our percieved body image. Evan though I am pushing the double nickel as far as age goes, I work with a younger group and all that goes with that I have always kind of felt that self-percepually I was around the lower/mid 40ish. Last summer I caught a glimpse of myself through a reflection in a window. My inial thought was that "Thats not me". Because of that reality check I started the NS program with all that goes with it, including all of you. Well last weekend I caught another glimpse of myself through a reflection and again my initial though was "Thats not me" Thank you everyone for your continued support.. Mike

For those in the northern tears its getting to feel a lot like winter. The leaves are falling or have fallen and we are getting the first taste of freezing. The South and Florida, having suffered from record setting heat this summer and fall should bring a little more tolerant tempratures. Being that Christmas is comming, people experience the Christamas season from many different perspectives. My point is, its all a state of mind. Our state of mind is largely based on our personal experience. People who are battling weight have a much different perspective on their body image than people who do not. Because of the emotional aspect of weight loss I am finding that is extremely important to utilize the daily food and excercise log and faithfully fill it in. Analyzing long term trends has enabled me to see what seems to be working with me and also helped me quantify the short term setbacks that we all encounter. I have been keeping track faithfully all of my food/excercise since August 01st and because of this I have been able to determine in spite of several short term plateaus that I am loosing at a consistant rate when looked at montrh to month. Anyway that seems to be working for me. When I het on a scale and find that I did not loose any weight since the last weighing I find comfort that month to month my program is working. Last weigh in 232.8,loosing appx 20lbs a month for three months in a row. As confidant as I sound I hope it keeps up. Anyway, I have an acre of leaves to rake befoe the Bears game starts, so Happy November. Mike

I have not been able to do my normal amount of excercise this week dur to my travel schedule, however I have been doing the best that I can. Nevertheless,  I have been fairly faithful on the NS food because, now that I have the logistics solved, it is becoming fairly easy to manage. The main benefit for me is that regardless of where I am at "feeding" time I have at least something. Long story short, I weighed in this morning at 234.8.  Thats down about 4 lbs from my last weigh-in so I continue to be  very happy with my results and the program in general.

"It's working for me" and with everyones continued support I know that I will make it to my goal fairly soon.  I am starting to think ahead now, about how I am going to manage a maintenance program, however first things first.

Thanks everyone and keep up with your good work.

Mike

PS. I am putting the "floating tenament" back in the water next week so as much as I stay away from cameras, I plan on posting an updated comparison pic.

At home today and it has been a pleasure using my own excercise equipment. I was able to weigh  in on my scale and I am pleased to report in at 237.6. I am very suprised and confident that I am well on my way to my goal weight. I was a little worried that over the last week I have not been able to get my full excercise program in every day, in fact I have only been able to do half.  My weight loss actually increased last week over the weeks before. I do not know if it has been a fluke or I have been doing too much cardio or simply I have been eating less.   I do not plan on changing anything in my program as of yet and I will continue to do as much as possible until it is determined differently

Again, thanks everyone, for your continued support and good luck with all of your sucesses.

Mike 

SUMMARY

Memorial day....309 lbs

4th of July....302 lbs

Aug 2nd (start of getting serious on the program)....300 lbs

Aug 12th Starting NS food.....286 lbs

Oct 21st.......237.6 lbs

"Its a lifestyle change, not a diet"

 

Hello all, Just a short note tolket you know that everything is fine. After nine weeks I believe that I am settling into a routine that really works. The weight is comming off slow and steady. I hope you all are fine. RFemember,keep moving, follow the plan, drink your water and HAVE A GREAT WEEK... Mike

I dropped off the following nice stuff to Goodwill today:

                        6ea. shirts 18.5 neck

                        5ea.  shirts 18 neck

                        3ea.  trousers 44 waist

                        2ea.  trousers 42 waist

                        2ea. XXXL sweatshirts

                        1ea.  XXL sweatshirt

                        Assorted T-shirts

Sure do like this program. Thank you NS

Mike

58 lbs down 42 lbs to go.

 

I was away for nine days , out of my routine , not able o work out as much as I wanted, but by taking the NS food with me and planning ahead with regards to the add-on foods etc, I am starting to be able to accomplish a healthy pattern while traveling.

Its not easy and it takes a bit of plannning, however I know it will become easier as I get use to working out the logistics at some of my travel destinations.

Another benefit of traveling is not weighing in every day. I am making eating and living healthy the top priority for now, establishing healthy patterns that I hope to take with me for the rest of my life.

Got on the scale this morning and WOW..I blew through the 50 lb weight loss barrier and am almost to 60 lbs.  What a suprise.8lbs in 9 days, I was not expecting that..

More later.

Have a great weekend.

Mike  

I am planning to weigh on Friday and its been about ten days since my last weigh in. The good point is that I have not been streesing on the weight and have been somewhat more subjective in judging my progress. As I have been out of town for the last several days, I have been off of my normal at home routine that allows me to work out dsily and have available all of my extras. While on the road I am forced to plan ahead and invent new ways to survive on this program. Additionally I have not been able to work out daily due to my work schedule and my routine has required me to modify my feeding times as you might be able to guess. So depending on the results I should have a lot to report especially how it works (atleast with me) as I stretcvh the boundries of this program. Again thanks in advance for all of youyr support. Mike